1-218-441 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Bodies in a trench at Mort Homme, Verdun, France, 9 April 1916. The small ridge known as Mort-Homme (Dead Man) saw some of the fiercest fighting at the Battle of Verdun. After first assaulting the hill on 6 March 1916, the Germans finally took it almost three months later, on 29 May.